Excited as we are about the new Student Activities and Events Center? You've come to the right place! If you want to see all the pictures from the project, visit our Flickr page. You can also check out the live camera at the site any time.
Weekly Construction Updates 2019
December 10, 2019
Progress keeps chugging along on the Student Activities and Event Center.
December 3, 2019
It's getting louder in there. Can you hear it? Rooms are beginning to take shape with aluminum wall studs as welders are working with structural i-beams.
November 26, 2019
Day by day, week by week, the Student Activities and Events Center becomes more of a reality. The crew continues to work on our newest building in almost 20 years.
November 19, 2019
You can hear the cheers getting a little louder, right? Progress is moving along.
November 12, 2019
The inside of the new Student Activities and Events Center is coming along nicely. Before we know it, this place will be abuzz!
November 5, 2019
The work continues. More layers are being added and more pipework is being completed.
October 29, 2019
Can you hear the roar of the crowd yet? More fixtures are being added to the outside of the building. Before long it's going to start looking like those beautiful renderings.
October 22, 2019
The Student Activities and Events Center is starting to come together inside. The groundwork for plumbing and locker room showers is shown off to staff on a tour of the interior. Air handling units are also set in place. Huge progress is made each day!
October 15, 2019
Check out some interior shots of the building. John Sarber leads a tour for staff to see what progress has been made that we can't see from the outside. It won't be long before cheering crowds, performances, and conferences fill the space.
October 8, 2019
Progress on the Student Activities and Events Center continues as insulating panels are being attached to the outside walls.
October 1, 2019
More and more changes! The front entrance of the Student Activities and Events Center is now enclosed. Weather-sealing is being affixed. Workers are also continuing masonry and electrical conduit placement.
September 24, 2019
The 1000-seat Student Activities and Events Center is moving along. Electrical conduit is being placed through walls and workers are fitting the outside walls with plywood to attach the exterior facade.
September 18, 2019
Block by block, the first new building on campus since 2002 continues to go up. The Student Activities and Events Center becomes more of a reality every day.
September 10, 2019
Workers are currently installing the steel girders that will hold the roof of the Student Activities and Events Center up. What we don't know is whether they will keep fans from blowing the roof off while cheering our teams on.
September 3, 2019
Exterior walls for the 24,000-square-foot facility are being constructed and electrical conduit is being pulled underground. Before we know it, this building will be hopping with events and excitement.
July 30, 2019
The inner walls for the gymnasium where most of the public activity will take place in the new Student Activities and Events Center are a work in progress. Workers are pouring cement in the cavities of the cinder blocks to reinforce the walls.
July 11, 2019
The construction crew continues work on the foundation and sets up to build another foundation wall to the east of the building.
July 2, 2019
Work has continued on the foundation for the Student Activities and Events Center. Pictures are workers setting forms for the footer wall and exposed reinforcement bar.
June 25, 2019
The beginnings of tying rebar and forming the walls for the foundation. The time is near to pour cement.
June 18, 2019
The construction crew is digging a trench for the footer/foundation of the building. They are also placing/tying rebar in the trench to pour cement over to form the concrete foundation of the building.
June 11, 2019
Progress has picked up following a couple weeks of rain. Grade is being built up.
June 4, 2019
A sheepsfoot roller and bulldozer are brought in to build up grade. Drainage pipe is brought in.
May 30, 2019
The fence is put up, rebar and foundation materials are brought in, and the equipment sits on the site. Rain delays the project.
Preliminary Renderings
Renderings of the Student Activities and Events Center
Description of the video:
Susan Sciame-Giesecke, Chancellor, Indiana University Kokomo speaks to the camera outdoors: “Hello, I’m Chancellor Susan Sciame-Giesecke, the Chancellor of Indiana University Kokomo and I am so excited to here on this green pasture because I know within one year, it’s going to be transformed. We’re gonna see our brand new Student Activities and Events Center.”
Renderings of what the building will look like when completed is shown.
The Chancellor continues speaking: “This is a facility that will change and transform this campus in ways we can’t even imagine. It will be the home of our athletic teams and it will be the home for concerts and speakers for all of our students and events for our community. I’m pleased to be here today with Trequan and Hannah who are gonna share with you a little bit about what this building will mean for them.”
The camera pans out to show Hannah, the Chancellor, and Trequan standing in the field where the building will be built.
Trequan Spivey, Class of 2021, Sports Management, IU Kokomo speaks to the camera: “My name is Trequan Spivey. I’m a member of the men’s basketball team here at IU Kokomo. I’m a sophomore and my major is sports management. What this new Events Center will bring for us as athletes is it shows that all our hard work has gone noticed and that IUK is becoming bigger and better. And so it also brings a lot of, uh, students, families, and friends, and members of the community to come to our games to feel more like home here and I’m proud to call IU Kokomo my home.”
Hannah Bourne, Class of 2020, Communication and History/Political Science, IU Kokomo speaks to the camera: “Hi, my name Hannah Bourne and I’m a double major in history/political science and communication here at IU Kokomo. I’m also the student body president and I’m so excited to be a student at IU Kokomo right now in this period of growth. As we get ready to build this new Student Activities and Events Center, um, here in this field, I am just thrilled to see the exciting and creative events that we’re going to be able to host in this as the Chancellor mentioned: conferences. We can have increased space for our Student Research Symposium. We can bring things to IU Kokomo. We can get creative in new ways. It’s just so wonderful to see this happening as we prepare to celebrate 200 years of IU with the IU Bicentennial.”
More renderings are shown of campus.
The Chancellor speaks to the camera again as Hannah and Trequan stand beside her: “You’ve heard all about the building and you’ve heard from our students about what this building will mean for them. I think about this next year being the 75th Anniversary of Indiana University Kokomo and I’m also thinking about the fact that this will be the first building we will build on this campus in 20 years. This is an 8.5 million dollar project and we’re trying to raise 3 million dollars to complete it. I sure would like to meet with each and every one of you to talk a little bit more about how you could contribute to this building. You’ll see a link on the bottom of this video if you’d like to contribute online. Thank you for your past support and we look forward to working with you in the future. And we look forward to seeing that new building in 2020.”
Iuk.edu/EVENTSCENTER
Indiana University Kokomo
Fulfilling the Promise
Iuk.edu/EVENTSCENTER